Jana-Maria Thimm

List of John Benjamins publications in which Jana-Maria Thimm is involved.

Article

Härtl, Holden and Jana-Maria Thimm 2024 Modal particles in ironic utterances: A common-ground approach to pretended surprise in verbal irony Pragmatics 34:3, pp. 347–366 | Article

This study contributes to theorizing about the semantic characteristics of verbal irony. Specifically, we investigate the function of the modal particles ja (lit. ‘yes’) and aber (lit. ‘but’) that often occur in ironic utterances in German, cf. Das war aber ein aufregender Film (‘That was prt a… read more